Big Changes Coming to the Safe Communities America Program

The Safe Communities America® model engages local partners who care about safety, uses data to identify leading causes of injury and makes a plan to address the issues using proven methods and measuring success. Safe Communities America has long been an accreditation program of the National Safety Council, however the program soon will transition to a new parent organization to provide a wider range of resources to communities.

Here are a few things you should know about the transition:

NSC is no longer accepting new applications

If you are working on Safe Communities America accreditation, please contact SCAInfo@nsc.org

NSC will work with all communities interested in Safe Communities America through the transition

Success in Local Safe Communities

In a
recent NSC study, after 10 years of rising injury rates in one community, the decision to seek Safe Community accreditation was followed by a two-year decline in injury hospitalizations; nearly 300 hospitalizations may have been prevented, saving the community more than $14 million in healthcare costs

A comprehensive approach to reducing prescription drug overdoses in a
Midwestern Safe Community has resulted in 4.5 tons of medications collected in drop boxes, hundreds of clinicians trained in effective pain management without opioids, a communitywide campaign on addiction and treatment, and training for first responders on naloxone use